Teacher rec letters suddenly disappeared

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>DD just received email from Yale admissions office notifying her that they don't have any teacher rec letters, and asking to resubmit (fax) the letters asap. Teachers submitted letters online at common app, and no other school reported any problems with them. Common app shows all three letters being successfully processed.</p>

<p>I'll contact Yale admissions office and common app tomorrow, to make sure it's not a scam. Having extremely hard time believing that something submitted electronically (and officially) can be lost, and Yale is unable to request another copy from common app. </p>

<p>Having DD chase all three teachers, one of which since has retired, begging them to redo their work asap, seems more like a cruel joke.</p>

<p>Did anybody experience something like this? Any suggestions?</p>

<p>Thanks a lot!</p>

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<p>Is it really that much effort to e-mail three teachers and ask them to fax over their rec letters, which they probably saved electronically?</p>

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<p>No no this is totally fine. It happened to me too for SCEA. Both of my teachers submitted online but Yale only received one teacher rec. So I just had my teacher fax it over again because I bet all the teachers saved their letter of rec on their computer somewhere. They simply print another copy and fax it. It’s probably not anyone’s fault. Yale just has so much paperwork to handle right now that some things just get lost along the process. My counselor says it happens every year so they’re always having to fax stuff over to colleges. They definitely understand!!</p>

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<p>when they contacted you, did a admissions officer contact you or someone else?</p>

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<p>it happens. did you contact admissions? what kind of scam were you thinking?</p>

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<p>Well, I know that my teachers submitted all of my financial statements and records with their recommendations to show how I had accumulated wealth over the years.<br>
My credit card information was in there!</p>

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<p>^lol, well, what kind of scam this could be is very mysterious to me.</p>

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<p>Opened ticket with Common App tech support, offering to pay for an additional download for Yale, if necessary. Got response promptly, suggesting that all LORs were fine and directing me to call Yale.</p>

<p>Called admissions, talked to an officer. Was told that it looked like due to a technical glitch the letters weren’t downloaded properly first time, and they would have somebody to do it again.</p>

<p>Just hours later DD got email saying that download was successful this time. ‘Sorry for the false alarm! You’re all set now.’</p>

<p>Is it really that much effort? Correct me if I’m wrong, but writing LORs isn’t teacher’s job responsibility or obligation, but rather a personal favor to a student. </p>

<p>All 3 teachers submitted letters confidentially and securely online. DD legally signed release of her right to see the letters, or whatever they call it. One of these 3 teachers is retired now.</p>

<p>Leave alone days off, sicknesses, travel, lack of time, and so on. How many [retired] teachers have fax machines at home? Or were we supposed to suggest them using work fax for personal transmissions? Was I supposed to offer them to pay Kinko’s faxing fees and mileage to get to the nearest Kinko location? How long would it all take?</p>

<p>‘We are unable to consider your application to Yale’ - that was at attention grabber in the email.</p>

<p>All right, even if we would jump all the hoops, what would you suggest to do if Harvard sends us similar email the next day?</p>